This article is about the relationship between antitrust and consumer protection law. Its purpose is to define each …. Antitrust and consumer protection law share a common purpose in that both are intended to facilitate the exercise of consumer …

Antitrust Act is to prevent monopoly and the acts which produce the same result as monopoly. The Constitution's Supremacy Clause … federal antitrust challenges, even when the state does not regulate the price the monopolist charges. The reason is that the … Supreme Court's antitrust decisions on state economic regulation have consistently confused two distinct questions: whether …

majority share of the markets for general-search results and advertising, prompting antitrust and competition-law scrutiny of … article) rationally steer its users toward particular sellers of real-world products like restaurant meals, home goods, etc …. This type of steering forecloses competition in markets not immediately adjacent to the platform itself. Current antitrust …

. Unfortunately, few antitrust economists are ready to admit the limitations of their discipline and many antitrust lawyers do not …

In its current form, antitrust law is often said to advance consumer welfare and to disregard economic inequality. But … enforcement of antitrust law should redistribute resources from shareholders to workers and consumers. Antitrust enforcement … for low-income people. We also suggest that antitrust law could, with little violence, be turned toward advancing consumer …

At long last, the Biden Administration has a permanent head of the Antitrust Division. Jonathan Kanter has much work to … office in 2017 determined to shake things up. He had strong views on how antitrust should consider patent-related issues in … the high-technology industry. And he foisted those views across every corner of antitrust policy.These positions stood …

The important field of antitrust and labor has gone through a profound change in orientation. For the great bulk of its … history labor has been viewed as a competitive threat, and the debate over antitrust and labor was framed around whether there … should be a labor “immunity” from the antitrust laws. In just the last decade, however, the orientation has flipped. Most new …

Technological innovation is changing private markets around the world. New advances in digital technology have created … technological advances could also help antitrust regulators improve their performance in detecting and responding to unlawful … private conduct. We foresee that the growing digital complexity of the marketplace will necessitate that antitrust authorities …

The value of sales of an undertaking infringing antitrust law is a key determinant of the size of the fine levied by a …

activists have urged the use of antitrust law to combat this threat, leading a “political antitrust” movement that advocates … explicit incorporation of political considerations into antitrust enforcement. Political antitrust has sparked great debate not … economics and politics. Third, we empirically test some postulates of political antitrust. Our findings do not support the …